…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.
Author: Charles Rotter
Screw Your Comfort: How Nature Became a Nagging Preacher
The tragedy is not that Nature publishes climate papers. It is that it no longer seems capable of publishing skepticism — not denial, but skepticism in its proper sense: disciplined…
U.S. Withdraws from the IPCC—and Dismantles a Global Climate Bureaucracy
…the exit from IPCC-adjacent institutions is not an isolated gesture, but a blunt, in your face, message that the era of unquestioned deference to transnational climate bureaucracy is over.
Studying Skeptics Through a Keyhole: Why Climate Communication Research Can’t See What It Refuses to Understand
They may quote skeptics endlessly. They may code them meticulously. They may analyze their “affective economies” until the funding runs out. They will still have no idea why climate skepticism…
Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat
A society that values both knowledge and liberty must resist this convergence of expertise and power. Scientists play a vital role in informing public debate. They do not acquire special…
Milloy talks energy with David Asman and Lydia Hu on FOX Business
From the December 22, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
When Everything Is a Heat Wave and Every Change Is Climate
In the end, the paper offers a compelling story, but not a disciplined causal argument. A loosely defined marine heat wave is paired with a loosely defined ecological baseline, and…
Hiding the Pea, Revisited: Remove the Scenario, Keep the Result
At this point, a reminder is useful: the issue is not what the authors claim, but what the results depend on.
How a PNAS Study Confuses Institutional Authority with Truth
What the paper actually demonstrates—despite its intentions—is that institutional authority no longer guarantees attention. Users are selective. They are skeptical. They are increasingly uninterested in being told what is true…
How the Grinch Stole Greenie Christmas
Every Greenie down in Green-ville liked green funding a lot, But the Grinch, up in D.C., most certainly did not.
Measuring Climate Change Without a Ruler
From a strict epistemological standpoint, we do not know—at high confidence—whether the total energy of the Earth’s climate system is increasing, decreasing, or remaining approximately constant.
Scientific Report or Legal Brief? The Hunga Tonga Assessment and the Anatomy of Narrative Closure
In that sense, the document reads less like an open scientific inquiry and more like a legal brief. Evidence is marshaled, counterarguments anticipated, uncertainties catalogued, and a verdict delivered early,…
Save Okefenokee Swamp from UNESCO Control
In Episode 21 of Conservation Country, host @GabriellaHoffman investigates a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage…
Mighty Mickey Has Struck Out-Again
And oh, the sound of gavel wood was sharp against the hall— They ruled the play was foul, not fair, bad faith and that was all.